Matt Bowcock // mbowcock.com

I mentioned in my previous post that I was testing some software for Fenway Forum - well I played with bbpress and while I liked it I ended up deleting it and just installing wordpress.  I figure its so hard to get a true forum to critical mass where it is somewhat self sustaining – that I would be better served creating posts in wordpress.  If I need to in the future I can always add bbpress and integrate with wordpress.

I also had the thought of allowing anyone to register in wordpress and give new members a “contributor” role.  This would allow them to contribute new posts – but they would need to be approved by an admin (me).  This would allow users to create new posts and other uses to post comments just like “true” forum apps – all whithin the comfort of wordpress.  We’ll see how it goes.

Being a huge Red Sox fan I was randomly searching for domains related to the team to create a fan site – to my surprise fenwayforum.com was available. I’ve been looking for a forum software package to use for the site and have been disappointed at whats available. It seems most forum software is bloated, slow and a resource hog. I think I will look into bbpress and vanilla over the next few days – hopefully they’ll be closer to what I’m looking for.